USS and UUK accused of failing to come clean over proposals to cut defined benefits

Holly Roach
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The Universities and College Union (UCU) has accused Universities UK (UUK) of failing to come clean over the true impact of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) pension proposals.

This comes as UCU launched a USS pension modelling tool today (28 May), developed by First Actuarial. The tool allows members and potential members of USS to see the impact UUK's proposals would...

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